My Mom's Having a Baby

My Mom's Having a Baby
Genre	Adventure Comedy Drama Family
Written by	Susan Fichter Kennedy Elaine Evans Rushnell
Directed by	Larry Elikann
Starring	Lance Kerwin Samaria Graham Mara Hobel
Theme music composer	Dean Elliott
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Friz Freleng David H. DePatie
Producer(s)	Robert Chenault
Cinematography	Donald M. Morgan
Editor(s)	Bill Moore
Production company(s)	DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
Distributor	ABC
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	February 16, 1977

My Mom's Having a Baby is an American television teen comedy/documentary that aired as an ABC Afterschool Special on February 16, 1977. The program would be historic as it was the first television program of its kind in the United States to showcase the pregnancy process and conception to young people, using a combination of animation and live action. The program was a co-production between Dick Clark Productions and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.

Upon learning that his mother is pregnant with what will be his brother, 10-year-old Petey Evans begins to wonder (through animated fantasies and flashbacks) about how babies are born, only to realize that those theories are not delivered by storks or popping out of a stomach. So, with help from his friends Oskar and Kelly, they go to a real expert who will be performing the delivery, Dr. Lendon Smith, who uses an animated film that explains in detail (via Smith's narration) of how a pregnancy begins and how the child is conceived.

The remaining portion of this program features an actual live birth being performed in front of the cameras, which was taken from a 1974 ABC's Wide World of Entertainment special called David Hartman: Birth & Babies. Actress Candace Farrell, who played the mother in this program, was pregnant at the time of filming the 1974 special, which resulted in the producers hiring her for this program.

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